no no no, you misinterpreted.
The screening method used to make kief, like you mentioned somewhere up there, is made from a less resinous, more powdery form of marijuana what most think of as fluffy sativa (known locally here as BC or B'sters). It makes blonde kief powder and is usually a light to lime color. This type requires pressure and/or heat to make a solid mass before it ever
appears sticky.
The water method, just like the alcohol, used to make hash involves the hydroxyl OH-. Found in both H20,+,-, Isopropyl alcohol, ethanol.......
These REAGENTS, (I believe) are usually non-toxic, and have the ability to dissolve other nonpolar substances. This method (Like you stated above) is used in Afghanistan, Nepal...etc. and we think of that as indica or kush. This highly resinous type
needs the kief to be spread on your table, hands, and jars like flour when using dough, to
keep it from sticking to everything.
Correct me if I'm wrong there, Im was never a very good chemist.
If thc is water soluble, then exactly what am I catching in my screens?..
Why do the trichomes 'not' dissolve?..
Are trichomes not nearlly pure thc?
Why doesn't everyone make oil useing "h20" as a solvent? (wouldn't that be a lot safer)
You are catching different size grains that are variant on a whole crap* load of factors. Trichomes can dissolve when binding to a polar substance. These studies have not been conducted (that I know of) and I am very skeptical about taking stuff to school to use our equip to study.
I have mounted some kief in a slide and observed it at 40,100, and 400x with the barlow lens, focal on, and did not get a 2V, extinction angle, color,...nothing. I put in a gypsum plate and could see only see grain size, the grains were isotropic (did not let light pass through). This means that kief is not at all a crystal, nor are trichomes in any way.
Reminds me...I have stuck about an oz of dried BC in our school ROTAP. :rofl:
You have some damn good questions that WILL get ansewred in our lifetimes...but, it is going to take some major univ. to allow studies to be conducted, or a major major MAJOR contributor to donate and fund years of projects, salaries, and equipment. That or legalize it.
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Sorry fruity86 we missed ur question!
No, IMO if they are males do not waste your time. Bury it in the yard. Deep.